Category: Rosh Hashanah

Simanim Carpaccio


This show stopping appetizer is as beautiful as it is delicious! It incorporates some of the symbolic foods that are customary to eat for the New Year including beets, carrots and pomegranate!

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Sweet Tahini Dip


For years I’ve been saying that sweet challah for Rosh Hashanah requires a sweet dip! I don’t want my raisin challah to be dipped into olive dip! Chocolate chip in matbucha? No thank you! So I took tahini paste – and instead of adding garlic, lemon and cumin – per usual – I added all the sweet things! And the result is an addictive halva-style dip that is perfect, not only for sweet challah – but for apples, pretzels, smeared over sourdough toast or bananas. Yum!

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Simanim Plov

I’ve been working on so many recipes for #yeswecanchag initiative including this sheet pan chicken and tzimmes, this 6-spice Moroccan stoup, and this Israeli couscous with beef.  My fellow bloggers and I also got together and created THIS MENU of bonus budget-friendly recipes! I hope these recipes help you scale down your cooking this Chag while still bringing showstopping dishes to the table!

A few weeks ago, I traveled to Denver, Colorado to host a cheese-board-building demonstration at The Jewish Experience 20th annual wine & cheese event. The event was set up beautifully, and they even served my Mile High S’mores Pie in the Mile High City to celebrate, how fun?!

Since the demonstration was late in the week, I stayed in Denver for Shabbos at the home of Rabbi & Mrs. Zeldy Engel of Chabad Cherry Creek. Zeldy was so warm and welcoming, and she happily took me around the neighborhood hot spots, even driving out to Red Rocks for a breathtaking and scenic view of the mountains.

Zeldy prepared many of my cookbook recipes from her well-worn copy of Millennial Kosher and her sister’s recipe for Moroccan fish that smelled like actual heaven. But the star of the Friday night meal was PLOV. Zeldy hosted two Bucharian sisters, Aliza and Sharona, who came over earlier in the day to prepare this labor-intensive dish. By Friday night, the smell was intoxicating, and the huge pot was painstakingly transferred onto a huge round platter in middle of the table. Not only was the dish beautiful, it’s flavor was absolutely mindblowing – savory, spicy, with a hint of sweetness from the carrots and heat from the jalapenos. As I was eating it, my mind started wandering in a million directions on how I could “trash it up” (as I like to say!) and put my own spin on it. Wish Rosh Hashanah approaching, I thought it would be a great idea to incorporate some of the simanim, or symoblic foods that we eat on Rosh Hashanah, so I replaced the onions with leeks, and the jalapenos with apples, and finished it off with pomegranate seeds for a colorful one-pot-meal worthy of your holiday table. Yes. We. Can. Chag!

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Baharat Roasted Spatchcock chicken With Tzimmes


Let’s make Baharat Roasted Spatchcock Chicken with Tzimmes! Tzimmes never looked so good!

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Apple & Honey Cosmos


Let’s make APPLE & HONEY Cosmos that even Carrie Bradshaw would approve of! 🍎🍯🍸

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